You have to admit that this is quite a hike in price. In my business, if I hiked prices by this margin, I would have to close my doors.
This will kill buying and selling low cost stuff since it won't be worth selling it on eBay anymore, IMHO. I've bought and sold many things on eBay, btw.
Meh, I find Ebay rather pointless for most stuff anyway. People bid stuff up to at least discount retail and then pay double the shipping costs. Unless its last years stuff, there are few deals to be found on ebay.
In rec.video.desktop Nasht0n wrote: : This will kill buying and selling low cost stuff since it won't be worth : selling it on eBay anymore, IMHO.
Well, frankly, if it helps return eBay to its original role as an AUCTION site, that would be good. The gazillions of duplicate listings with buy-it-now trash has made it more and more difficult to search for normal auctions.
When I received the email that they were raising prices I had just been talking to a friend about how great it must be to make millions of dollars without actually selling or shipping anything. Now I have to add to that, it must be beyond great to be able to double your profit by simply saying, today I think I'll double our profit. Click, click. Ok, done. :)
Most of things I buy on eBay are with BIN. I don't like waiting around, frantically waiting as the last few minutes tick buy. I'd rather just buy it and get it over with.
Why jump in the Bay when you can buy items on the Pier.
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Craig's list is another idea - but eBay recently bought 25% of them, so they may go under in the same way.
Big websites that don't concentrate on just Auctions aren't going to work. Overstock is trying to do it too, but you need conentration from the buyer and that's not going to happen on those sites.
Use snipping if you don't like bidding at the last minute, it will do it for you.
Wrong Mike. Sounds as if you know little about economics.
An item that sells at auction for $10, like a set of 4 Lithium Batteries.
Will still sell after February 18th for $10.
PROBLEM is, the cost to sell those SAME Batteries has been raised by about .62¢!!! Not a nickel or a dime, but a LOT OF FREAKING Money.
The buyer doesn't pay this fee, the SELLER DOES... you can't just raise your price... since PRICE is determined by the Market in and OUT of eBay.
In other words, it will make it less viable to sell your stuff on eBay, thus less choice for buyers... This is a SERIOUS issues for the main reason that eBay is just a website... they don't have any real cost outside of maintaining a very complex server. They are spending money on expensive TV commercials, buying up Rent.com, Craig's List, without our approval, thus driving up OUR fees.
If you sold on eBay you'd be raging mad, if you buy on ebay, it won't become clear that the show is going to get very quiet after Feb 18th.
Lot's of people are leaving.
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ebay needs to solve this problem before it's too late.
From what I've seen on Ebay, this is probably a reaction to sellers listing products at a rediculously low price and making all the profit from the shipping cost. Not unusual to see a buy now price of $1 and $10 in shipping fees, of which Ebay gets nothing.
Invid Fan ( snipped-for-privacy@localnet.com) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
The new fee structure would make that happen even more often, not less. Any time the eBay fees go up, sellers will raise their shipping costs to compensate. It's the one place you can guarantee a fixed payment (assuming your item sells at all).
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